Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Natalia Portillo]

for target-i386 and target-x86_64:

o EFI firmware emulation (as a machine or command line option)
o OS/2 1.x support

for target-m68k

o Macintosh support at least to boot an Apple Toolbox (the firmware)

for target-ppc

o Mac OS X support (there is already a open source emulator able to  
boot it shouldn't be so difficult to correct QEMU bugs on it)

for target-mips

o Windows NT support

integrating target-alpha and target-zxspectrum in the branch tree
a new official os support list design (please, give me ideas, css,  
help, anything!) with a better captcha

El 30/09/2009, a las 00:54, Anthony Liguori escribió:

> Hi,
>
> Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about  
> 0.12.0.
>
> I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't  
> think the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more  
> testing out of it.  I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a  
> good bit.  The 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain  
> toward the end of the cycle.  We also had a pretty huge amount of  
> change between 0.10 and 0.11 so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.
>
> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3  
> month cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution  
> cycles.  I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only  
> for about a week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious  
> issues I think.
>
> I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.   
> Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release  
> (target-i386 centric).  Please add or comment on items that you'd  
> either like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
>
> o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
> o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target  
> completely converted to qdev
> o storage live migration
> o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
> o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
> o KSM integration
> o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
> o guest SMP support for KVM
> o updates to the default pc machine type
>
> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori